Beginners Arabic Reading

When your child is ready to go to kindergarten, introduce him or her to the Quran. The best way to do that is to begin teaching the Arabic alphabet and the vowel signs. After learning the alphabet, your child will be able to read, write and pronounce it correctly.

The Beginners Arabic Reading book is a step-by-step guide to begin reading the Quran, introducing the letters and gradually demonstrating their beginning, middle and end forms.

Why the Letter Forms Are the Real Lesson

Because this is where beginners actually get stuck.

Learning twenty-eight letters is straightforward. Discovering that each one looks different depending on where it sits in a word is the point at which a child who thought he knew the alphabet opens a page and recognizes almost nothing.

Teaching the forms alongside the letters from the start prevents that entirely — the child never learns an isolated shape and then has to relearn it.

Starting at Kindergarten Age

The advice in the opening is worth taking seriously. Children absorb a script most easily before they have fully consolidated another one, and a child who meets Arabic letters at four or five treats them as ordinary rather than foreign.

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